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Vimeo outage on 29 October 2026

Major outage
Resolved · 18:03–19:40 UTC
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“Delays processing new video uploads”

On 29 October, Vimeo had delays processing newly uploaded videos, with the Upload component marked as a major outage from 18:03 to 19:40 UTC (1 h 37 min). The status page said uploads completed but some videos stayed in a pending or preparing state for longer than usual. It reported at 19:22 that processing had caught up and times were back to normal, before marking the incident resolved at 19:40. Litmus, Bling, Musixmatch and Nequi also had problems at the same time.

Vimeo’s own incident page ↗
When
18:03–19:40 UTC
How long
1 h 37 min
Incident open on its page
18:03–19:40 UTC
Components affected
1
Vimeo, 30 days before
2 other outages

What broke when

Major outage
Partial outage
Degraded
Upload
UTC 18:0018:3019:0019:30

From Vimeo’s own status page: when it moved each component into trouble, and back.

At the same time

Started in the hour before or during it

UTC 17:3018:0018:3019:0019:30

And 124 lesser-known services. Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.

Timeline

Times in UTC

  1. Investigating
  2. Upload: partial outage
  3. Cause identified
  4. Fix in place, monitoring
  5. Resolved
  6. Upload: back to normal

Where this comes from

Stackpulse reads Vimeo’s official status page at www.vimeostatus.com every minute. The times above are when it reported the problem; the summary is written from its updates and checked against them.

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